Week 11:

We paced ourselves in the lead-up to this week as it was the biggest and most ambitious week so far. This week was finally filming week.

Our studio was booked from 9am-4pm so we knew we had a tight schedule to follow. To ensure that we could set up the studio and put everything else in the dressing room, the crew met on campus at 8am. All of our amazing cast members arrived by around 9am and had time to get into their costumes. At first, we were falling slightly behind schedule, but after we finished the opening sitcom sequence, we decided to have a lunch break. We had already arranged catering ahead of time, so we knew that our actors were comfortable and fed before the next few scenes. After this break, we got back to work and were on-time and on-schedule again. Despite the stress of getting everything done on time, we all had a lot of fun on set and made many fond memories.

As for the second day of filming, we just needed to record a few extra behind the scenes footage and interview scenes. This led us to our second location – the Reach Foundation in Collingwood. There was no need to set up much other than lighting, the camera and a chair for the interviewed characters. We finished filming here before expected and were now ready to export footage and audio before post-production. Everything went smoothly and this is attributed to all the planning we did in the pre-production stage, especially with the call sheets that Nia made ahead of time.

Then, Nia and Zach got to work on the first rough cut (I would’ve loved to be there but I was given more shifts than normal this week), but I was told that the continuity sheets helped the initial syncing process much easier and we were looking good in terms of finishing our film before the due date.